Can a Passion For Sport Lead to Violent Behavior?
Nowadays, sports are a very large part of the media. Not only are we interested in the actual game, but as a celebrity saturated culture we are also fascinated by the lifestyles and relationships of the players. This is especially the case with footballers. They earn an incredible wage for doing a job that they enjoy and appear to live an amazing lifestyle. However, football is also a very passionate game which can lead to negative connotations. The players themselves are passionate about the game and this can lead to violence and malicious tackles on the pitch and bust-ups off the pitch. Generally, player violence isn’t too serious and can be controlled by the referee, but the fan violence isn’t so easily dealt with. It is true that plenty of sports have passionate fans, but why are football fans so much more violent? Perhaps it is because football has the ability to change a normally calm fan into an angry, abusive person if it goes against their favor, but how? It brings to the surf
